While today’s Call of Duty headlines will be dominated by talk about the loss of the single-player campaign and the introduction of a battle royale mode, it turns out Black Ops 4’s multiplayer matches are the best they’ve been for a long time.

When Modern Warfare launched it changed the games industry. Every other FPS suddenly had us aiming down the iron sights, we were constantly breaching doors with eager AI, and every fucking character in a military shooter started saying “oorah”.